For the most part, Manhattan Beach focuses on New York City life during World War II: separated families, economic strain, and a new status for women as the hardworking breadwinner. But as the story stretches out from the central view of a struggling family, two other stories emerge that are so massive, their sheer gravity…
Garden of her Heart is an exceptional historical romance that goes far beyond the typical affairs and courtship central to most romance plots, delving into a difficult subject matter in American history: the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Garden of her Heart is the first in Shanna Hatfield’s Hearts of the War…
Although Sarah’s Key is over a decade old, it seems fairly new – as if I first heard about it the other day. It’s been on my to-read list for years but try as I might, I can’t possibly dent that continually growing pile without major life changes, a lottery win, a nanny, and limitless…
Expected Publication: December 7, 2016 Paperback $14.99 eBook $4.99 358 pp Pre-Order Here December 7, 2016 marks the 75th anniversary of a “date which will live in infamy”—the attack on Pearl Harbor. Thrusting America into World War II, the events on that date changed our nation forever, and for Hale Bradt, they marked the beginning…
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction AND the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2001 as well as a number of other awards. Forgotten in my mountainous pile of to-reads, it was pulled to the front by my reliable book club. This historical and literary fiction begins on the eve…